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For the 2022 game, meet Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.

"The most anticipated game of the year — Modern Warfare two."

— Adam Sessler, former co-host of Ten-Play .

Telephone call of Duty: Modernistic Warfare ii is the sixth main Call of Duty game, and the fourth developed by Infinity Ward.

The game was published past Activision for the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Officially announced on February 11, 2009, the game was released worldwide on November x, 2009. Information technology is the straight sequel to Telephone call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, continuing forth the aforementioned storyline and gameplay. It was released in conjunction with two other Phone call of Duty games: Telephone call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized for the Nintendo DS, and Phone call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Reflex Edition, a port of Call of Duty 4: Mod Warfare for the Wii console. In addition, a comic volume series based on i of the game's characters was also produced, entitled Modern Warfare 2: Ghost. The straight sequel to the game, Call of Duty: Mod Warfare 3, was released on November viii, 2011.

Telephone call of Duty: Modernistic Warfare two has received highly positive reviews from various gaming websites, attaining a 94% amass score on Metacritic, with praise stemming primarily from its in-depth multiplayer component.

On January thirteen, 2010, Activision reported that Phone call of Duty: Modernistic Warfare two had crossed $ane billion in retail sales.^[2]

On Baronial 28, 2018, the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: Modernistic Warfare 2 was made backwards compatible on the Xbox One.

On March 31, 2020, a remastered version of the single-player entrada was released on the PlayStation 4. Xbox 1 and PC versions of the game were made available on Apr thirty, 2020.

Campaign

Telephone call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 continues five years after the events of Call of Duty four: Mod Warfare.

Plot overview

"This is for the record."

— Captain Price

The year is 2016, and despite the efforts of the United States Marine Corps and the Special Air Service, the Ultranationalists seize control of Russia and declare Imran Zakhaev a hero and martyr, erecting a statue of him in the heart of the Carmine Square. Meanwhile, Vladimir Makarov, i of Zakhaev'south former lieutenants, begins a campaign confronting Europe by committing barbarous acts of terrorism over the form of v years. In Afghanistan, U.S. Army Ranger PFC Joseph Allen assists his commanding officer Sgt. Foley in grooming the local soldiers until he is called to run a training course overseen by Lieutenant General Shepherd, who is recruiting one of the Rangers for a special functioning. After completing the class, Allen and the rest of the 75th Ranger Regiment assists in the taking of a metropolis from local OpFor soldiers. Impressed by Allen'southward abilities, General Shepherd recruits him into "Task Strength 141", an elite, multi-national counter-terrorist unit under Shepherd'due south control. Meanwhile, two other members of 141, Cpt. 'Soap' MacTavish and Sgt. Gary 'Roach' Sanderson infiltrate a Russian airbase in the Tian Shan mountains to call up an ACS (Attack Characterization System) module from a downed satellite. During their infiltration, Soap orders Roach to plant explosives to cover their escape, just is compromised while retrieving the ACS. While they are pursued by enemy forces, both men manage to escape with the module.

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Introduction to the game

Allen is afterward sent on an undercover mission in Russian federation for the CIA, joining Makarov disguised as terrorist Alexi Borodin in a massacre of civilians at the Zakhaev International Airport in Moscow. While they manage to evade capture by Russian forces, Makarov, aware of Allen'due south identity, kills him during extraction, leaving his body to spark a war between Russia and the U.s. of America. Outraged by what was believed to be an American-supported terrorist attack, Russia retaliates with a massive surprise invasion on the United States after bypassing its early warning arrangement, revealing that the ACS module MacTavish and Sanderson recovered had already been compromised before its retrieval.

75th Ranger Regiment Sergeant Foley leads his team, including Cpl. Dunn and Allen's replacement Pvt. James Ramirez, in defense of a suburb in northward-eastern Virginia against the enemy Russian paratroopers. During their assault in a Russian occupied suburban neighborhood, Shepherd contacts Foley and orders his squad to extract an HVI, claiming that he has intel vital to the war endeavour. Upon arriving at the HVI's safe house, Sgt. Foley and his squad find the safe business firm breached and HVI murdered along with several deceased soldiers bearing odd tattoos. Foley takes notice that the condom room was not forcefully breached equally Dunn checks bodies for intel. They later proceed towards a war-torn Washington, D.C., where U.Southward. forces are fighting the Russians for control of the uppercase city. Sgt. Foley and his squad proceed to the Russian occupied Department of Commerce to clear a 'Crows Nest' being used to pin down the evac site at the Washington Monument. They subsequently provide air support for U.Due south. forces onboard a helicopter but are soon shot out of the sky. The squad, running depression on armament, make a terminal stand against the Russian Regular army earlier a sudden flash halts their assail.

Meanwhile, Task Force 141 searches for evidence that implicates Makarov every bit the mastermind backside the airport massacre, as all proof of Makarov's involvement died with Allen. Intelligence leads them to a Favela in Rio de Janeiro, where the team investigates leads on Makarov'south contact, weapons dealer Alejandro Rojas. They notice out from Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy, known as Prisoner #627, is locked up in a Russian gulag in Petropavlosk. On the orders of Shepherd, the Task Force are sent to infiltrate an oil platform off the coast of Russia in order to rescue several hostages before assaulting the gulag. The Task Force assaults the prison and manages to free 627, who is revealed to be Helm John Cost, who was previously captured during Performance Kingfish. Price agrees to aid Lather and Shepherd in tracking down Makarov, with Soap handing the control of the Unit over to Price. While Shepherd believes that they must keep their hunt for Makarov, Toll decides that ending the war in America is their beginning priority. To end it, he temporarily goes rogue, and leads the 141 on a raid of a Russian port, where they proceeds command of a nuclear submarine. Price uses the submarine to launch a ballistic missile towards Washington D.C. He sets the warhead to detonate in the upper atmosphere, unintentionally destroying the International Space Station and creating an electromagnetic pulse, crippling vehicles and electronic equipment on both sides and giving the Americans a slight advantage.

Back in the United States, Ramirez and his fellow squad mates seek shelter from the disabled aircraft that are at present literally falling from the sky, and proceed to the White House after running into Pvt. Vaughn, a runner who tells the team that Colonel Marshall is assembling whatever forces he can to retake the White House, which is now a stronghold for the Russian Army. Subsequently finally meeting Col. Marshall, he orders the team that taking the White Business firm is their elevation priority, but they later receive a manual informing them that the Air Force is preparing to carpet bomb the unabridged urban center to deny the Russians a potent foothold. Foley's team fight their way to the White House and set up off flares in the nick of time, aborting the air strike. Flares are lit on the rooftops of other landmarks, signifying that the city is still in American hands. Angered over destruction of the Capital, Foley, Dunn and the residual of the Rangers vow vengeance against the Russians, claiming they will burn Moscow to the ground as they did with D.C.

Narrowing down Makarov'south hiding identify to two dissever locations, Task Strength 141 decides to split. Price and Lather travel to an shipping bone-yard in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan, while Roach and Ghost raid Makarov's rubber house on the Georgian-Russian edge. At the safe firm, Roach and his team obtain vital intelligence from Makarov's computer and escape with Makarov's men in pursuit. However, when they reach the extraction point, Shepherd betrays them, retrieving the intelligence and taking it with him, murdering Roach and Ghost and burning their bodies in the process. Price and MacTavish quickly learn of Shepherd's expose, though Price states that he wasn't betrayed since he never trusted Shepherd. The duo then manage to escape an already ongoing boxing between Shepherd and Makarov'due south men with Nikolai's help. After contacting Makarov and offering to impale Shepherd for him, Makarov grudgingly reveals Shepherd's location at a mountain base in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan, codenamed Site Hotel Bravo. Price and MacTavish raid the base of operations in an attempt to take revenge on Shepherd in a suicide mission. During the infiltration, Shepherd tries to escape on a Zodiac motorboat, and a long boat pursuit ensues.

At the climax of the pursuit, Shepherd boards a Pave Depression, only for Cost to disable it by shooting the helicopter'due south rotor, causing a crash landing. Toll and Soap tumble over a waterfall in the process. Afterwards recovering from the fall, a dazed Soap gets up and approaches the crashed Pave Low with only his pocketknife. He sees Shepherd and moves in for the impale. Shepherd counters by slamming Lather onto a destroyed car and stabs him in the breast, causing him to temporarily blackout. Shepherd and then explains his motivations as to why he betrayed Task Forcefulness 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and as Lather wakes upwards again, Shepherd proceeds to empty his .44 Magnum, loading two bullets in it - supposedly one for Soap and the other for Price. Even so, just before Shepherd shoots Lather, Price tackles Shepherd and the ii engage each other in a roughshod fist fight. While Price manages to hold his own, Shepherd ultimately gets the upper hand, simply the heavily wounded Soap is able to pull the knife from his chest and throw it into Shepherd's left center, killing him.

Price regains consciousness and inspects Lather's wounds as Nikolai arrives in a helicopter to extract them. Nikolai warns them that they will be pursued, but Cost insists that Soap receives medical attending. Nikolai mentions that he knows a safe place to go to ("Da, I know a place"), and Lather and Price, now globally wanted criminals, go into hiding.

Telephone call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 PC - Full Walkthrough

Entrada missions

Act I

S.S.D.D. — Help train the ANA soldiers.
Team Role player — Assault an Afghan town after the bridge is destroyed past OpFor soldiers.
Bewilderment — Infiltrate a Russian mountain base with Capt. MacTavish and recover a downed ACS module.
No Russian — Assail a Russian airdrome with Vladimir Makarov while hugger-mugger. (This level tin can be skipped if the histrion is offended past its content).
Takedown — Engage in a running firefight throughout Rio de Janeiro'south Favela to capture an arms dealer named Alejandro Rojas.

Human action II

Wolverines! — Locate and protect codename Raptor during the beginning of the Russian invasion of America.
The Hornet's Nest — Fight through the Brazilian Militia defenses and escape the favela.
Exodus — Crush Russian forces in the suburbs and retrieve the HVI from the panic room.
The Simply Easy Mean solar day... Was Yesterday — Infiltrate an oil-rig, rescue hostages, and clear the way to the Gulag.
The Gulag — Set on a Russian Gulag and rescue Prisoner #6-2-7.
Of Their Ain Accord — Assault Russian positions at the Department of Commerce, and protect the evacuation site at the Washington Monument.

Act III

Contingency — Evade enemy patrols, shell Russian defenses at the sub base, and assist Cpt. Cost secure a nuclear submarine.
Second Sun — Dodge falling debris, and push button through remaining Russian forces to Whiskey Hotel.
Whiskey Hotel — Assault the White Firm, clear out Russian forces, and become to the roof to wave off friendly fighter bombers.
Loose Ends — Search for Makarov at his safehouse on the Georgian/Russian edge, and capture Makarov'south Operations Playbook.
The Enemy of My Enemy — Brand your way through the bone-yard as General Shepherd'south men and Makarov'due south men fight each other and get to the extraction point.
Just Similar Erstwhile Times — Search the Afghan cave network for Shepherd.
Endgame — Chase Shepherd, using a boat, make your way down rivers and through caves with Cost to kill Shepherd.

Bonus

Museum — See dioramas of about levels, locations, and events in the storyline in a museum. Every weapon featured in game is also constitute here, and the thespian is able to pick up any of them. An Ammo Box Parcel is available in the 2 rooms the weapons are found in. A red bell is found in the ii rooms featuring characters. The bell reads "Exercise Not Printing", and if the player disobeys, all the characters featured in the dioramas in the individual rooms come to action, and they all effort to kill the player. A third room features vehicles used, only are not animated similar the characters in the other 2 rooms. There also are several exclusive weapons, the M1911, and W1200, all of which are usable and exclusive to the level. Unlocked subsequently the completion of the campaign.

Canceled Levels

International Space Station - Found in the game's code.
Roadkill - Institute in the Hardened/Prestige Edition art-volume.

Characters

Task Force 141

Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson is a playable character and fellow member of Task Force 141.
Captain John "Lather" MacTavish (The main playable graphic symbol from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare) is the Commanding officeholder of Task Force 141 and another playable character.
Helm John Price (Soap'due south commanding officeholder from Telephone call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare) returns to fight alongside Soap.
Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley is a fellow member of Task Force 141 and Lather's correct-hand man.

U.Due south. Army Rangers

Lt. General Shepherd is the commander of the U.S. forces, Job Strength 141 and Shadow Company.
Private James Ramirez is a U.Due south. Ground forces Ranger, and a playable grapheme.
Sergeant Foley is the leader of Ramirez's squad in the U.S. Army Rangers.
Individual Kickoff Class Joseph Allen is in Foley's squad of the U.S. Army Rangers, and subsequently a member of the C.I.A and is the first playable graphic symbol.
Corporal Dunn is the 2nd in command in Foley'south squad in the U.Southward. Army Rangers.
Overlord is the communicator between the U.S. Regular army Rangers throughout the game.
Colonel Marshall is the de-facto commander of the The states forces during the afterwards stages of the Boxing of Washington D.C., who organized a siege on the White House with whatever men he could find.

Other Characters

Nikolai from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare returns in the missions "The Hornet'southward Nest", "The Enemy of My Enemy", "Just Similar Old Times", and "Endgame".
Sat1 is the callsign for an unnamed astronaut who is only playable at the beginning of "2d Dominicus".
Major Petrov is the airfield commander in the level "Bewilderment".
Vladimir Makarov is the new leader of the Ultranationalists.
Viktor is one of the terrorists in "No Russian".
Anatoly is i of the terrorists in "No Russian".
Lev is one of the terrorists in "No Russian".
Kiril is one of the terrorists in "No Russian".
Alejandro Rojas is an artillery dealer based in Rio de Janeiro.
Rojas' assistant is Rojas' right hand man.

five • d • e Characters of Phone call of Duty: Modern Warfare ii and Modern Warfare 2 Entrada Remastered

Task Force 141	John "Soap" MacTavish · John Toll · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant

Army Rangers	Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · Sandler · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood

Russian Federation	Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky

Inner Circumvolve	Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen Remastered Simply: Yuri

Shadow Company	Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur

Brazilian Militia	Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant

Afghan National Army	Hamed

U.S. Government	William Cullen

U.S. Army	Overlord · Punisher · Warlord

Miscellaneous	Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta

Locations

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Washington, D.C., United states of america
Transitional islamic state of afghanistan
Virginia, USA
Siberia
Zakhaev International Airport
International Space Station
Tian Shan Range, Republic of kazakhstan
Georgia-Russian federation border
Fire Base of operations Phoenix, Afghanistan
Vikhorevka 36 Oil Platform
Petropavlovsk Gulag, Russian federation
Plane bone m somewhere in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan
Shadow Company cave networks, Afghanistan
Modernistic Warfare two Showroom, Encino, California

Achievements/Trophies

Primary article: Achievements/Call of Duty: Mod Warfare 2

Special Ops

Master commodity: Special Ops

The offset Spec Ops level in the Alpha category: "The Pit".

A new Special Ops way includes i and two actor cooperative play. Special Ops mode includes several fast-paced action missions similar to "Mile High Club" which are more difficult than normal entrada missions and are non related to the main storyline. It picks out certain parts of the single-actor campaign that "piece of work well with co-op". Missions are unlocked by earning stars, which are acquired by playing levels at certain difficulties. Regular difficulty earns 1 star, hardened earns two, and veteran earns three. Missions are divided into five groups, named Blastoff, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, and Echo - the last being the hardest. Within the groups, there are types of missions such equally "Breach and Clear" and "Elimination". There are special enemy types, such as those using Riot Shields, even the Special Ops exclusive Juggernaut, wearing heavy bomb squad armor. There are a total of 23 Special Ops missions, ii of which are only playable in ii player co-op due to one histrion profitable the other in carrying out the mission'due south objective from air support.

Multiplayer

Multiplayer is like to the previous two titles on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Nonetheless, multiplayer on the PC is quite different from previous games. The PC version no longer includes dedicated server support. While previous Telephone call of Duty titles allowed multiplayer matches with up to 64 people and user-made maps and mods, Call of Duty: Modernistic Warfare 2 on PC is virtually identical to console versions.

Gameplay

The basic gameplay stays the same from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Telephone call of Duty: Globe at War. A few changes have been made;

The HUD is now much more than sleek and like shooting fish in a barrel to read on a smaller Idiot box than the HUD from Telephone call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
Blood volition now cover the screen when the thespian is injured. This consequence will eventually get away and it is all the same possible to come across through the claret.
Create-a-Class, while still unlocked at level iv, has a few changes;
- There is a new slot chosen "Equipment" where the role player can choose from a Smash Shield, Claymore, C4, Throwing Knife, or Semtex instead of the standard M67 Frag Grenade.
- Secondary Weapons now consist of Shotguns, Auto Pistols, Handguns, and Launchers instead of only handguns in the previous games.
- Besides with the HUD the Create-a-Class interface has been re-washed from the previous games and is now much more than sleek and convenient.
As with previous games, in improver to actor created classes there are five preset classes, but this time they include weapons and equipment unlocked at higher levels rather than but the items that are available by default when Create-a-Form is first unlocked.
In-game Host Migration has been implemented - if the host of a multiplayer game leaves, the game will automatically pause for a few seconds to choose a new host, and so the game volition resume, preventing many highly irritating mid-game ends with no or inaccurate results.
Idle sway for all non-scoped weapons and AK-47s with attachments (apart from ACOG Scope) has likewise been removed.
Each of the perks has a Pro upgrade available, which the player has to unlock by completing a challenge for the specific perk. These Pro upgrades better the players current perk and automatically replaces information technology once unlocked.
In Split Screen, instead of all Pre-fix Classes, users tin rank up and create their own.

Ranks

Master article: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 ranks

The ranking system works in the same way as the previous ii games. As the actor plays matches, they will proceeds XP. Once the thespian reaches a certain corporeality of XP, the player will level upwardly. There are at present a total of 70 levels in Modern Warfare 2, equally opposed to 55 in Call of Duty four: Modern Warfare and 65 in Call of Duty: World at War. There are also x levels of prestige, just like in the other two games. Equally in World at War, the player can unlock a total of 5 extra custom class slots by the 9^th prestige.

Gametypes

v • d • e Gametypes of Phone call of Duty: Modern Warfare two

Core	tertiary Person Team Tactical · Barebones Pro · Capture the Flag · Sabotage · Domination · Free-for-All · Footing War · Headquarters Pro · Mercenary Team Deathmatch · Objective Barebones Pro · Demolition · Search and Destroy · Team Deathmatch · Squad Deathmatch Express · Team Tactical

Removed	3rd Person Team Deathmatch · 3rd Person Hardcore Team Deathmatch · 3rd Person Cage Match · Cage Match · Mosh Pit

Cut	Global Thermonuclear War · One Flag Capture the Flag · Loonshit · Dice Difficult · Defcon · Artillery Race · VIP · Tactical

Weapons

Attachments

Weapons attachments return in Call of Duty: Modernistic Warfare 2 with a few changes. Firstly, new attachments were introduced, such as the Thermal Scope and Heartbeat Sensor. Secondly, some weapon attachments are now unlocked through the use of other attachments, such as getting 20 kills looking through the ACOG Scope to unlock the Thermal Scope or threescore kills looking down the RDS to unlock the Holographic Sight. Lastly, the Grip and Grenade Launcher no longer count as a tier one perk. There are a total of 14 weapon attachments, although not all attachments are available for all weapons. Enemies throughout the campaign will now carry weapons customized with a variety of attachments. When a player goes to pick upwards a weapon, it will really tell them what attachments the gun has, except when the gun is using Bling or does non take any attachments.

5 • d • east Weapons of Phone call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and MW2 Entrada Remastered

Handguns	USP .45 · .44 Magnum · M9 · Desert Hawkeye · M1911 .45 (SP)

Machine Pistols	PP2000 · G18 · M93 Raffica · TMP

Shotguns	SPAS-12 · AA-12 · Striker · Ranger · M1014 · Model 1887 · W1200 (SP)

Launchers	AT4 · Thumper · Stinger · Javelin · RPG-7

Assail Rifles	M4A1 · FAMAS · SCAR-H · TAR-21 · FAL · M16A4 · ACR · F2000 · AK-47

Submachine Guns	MP5K · UMP45 · Vector · P90 · Mini-Uzi

Light Machine Guns	L86 LSW · RPD · MG4 · AUG HBAR · M240

Sniper Rifles	Intervention · Barrett .50cal · WA2000 · M14 EBR/M21 EBR · Dragunov (SP, SO)

Special	Riot Shield

Equipment	Frag · Semtex · Throwing Knife · Tactical Insertion · Nail Shield · Claymore · C4

Special Grenades	Flashbang · Stun · M18 Smoke Grenade

Console Command Weapons	G36C · Skorpion · M60E4 · M40A3 · R700 · Default Weapon · Reflex Sight

Attachments	Crimson Dot Sight ( Mars Sight · Telescopic Sight ) · Holographic Sight · Thermal Scope · ACOG Scope ( SUSAT · Swarovski Scope (SP) ) · Shotgun · Grenade Launcher ( M203 · GP-25 ) · Grip · Tactical Knife · Rapid Fire · FMJ · Extended Mags · Akimbo · Silencer · Heartbeat Sensor · Sniper Scope (SP, So)

Miscellaneous	Knife · Gainsay Knife · AN/PEQ-2A · Minigun · M2 Browning Machine Gun · M249 SAW · M61 Vulcan Cannon · Bofors 40mm · Makarov · Breaching Charge · Air Back up Marker · Grenade Numberless · I Man Army Bag · Binoculars · Ammunition Crate · Ice Axe · Night Vision Goggles · Ghillie Suit · Variable Zoom · SOPMOD · Mk 19 · Geiger Counter · Flare · Parachute · Scuba Gear · M72 LAW · Juggernaut Suit · Galil CQB Bayonet (Remastered only)

Cutting	G3 · Remington 870 MCS · MP5 · M14 · AK-74u · AW-50 · L85

Vehicles

five • d • due east Vehicles of Phone call of Duty: Mod Warfare 2

Aircraft	MQ-1 Predator · Air-conditioning-130H Spectre · C-130 Hercules · AV-8B Harrier II · F-15 Eagle · MiG-29 · An-124 Condor · B-2 Spirit · A-10 Thunderbolt II

Helicopters	Mi-24 · Mi-28 Havoc · Mi-8 Hip · AH-1W Super Cobra · AH-64 Apache · CH-46 Sea Knight · UH-60 Blackhawk · MH-53 Pave Low · MH-6 Little Bird

Watercraft	SEAL Delivery Vehicle · Zodiac · USS Chicago · USS Dallas · Oscar-grade submarine · Los Angeles-class submarine

Footing Vehicles	Humvee · Stryker · M1A2 Abrams · M2A2 Bradley · M104 Wolverine · T-72 · BTR-fourscore · BMP-two · Snowmobile · Ural-4320 · UAZ-469 · 9K330 Tor · Technical · Opel Blitz · 2K12 Kub · M1128 Mobile Gun System

Cut	Motorbike · BM-21 · Default Vehicle

Perks

Principal article: Perks

Players can choose i perk from each of the iii main tiers and one Decease Streak perk for a single course loadout. Iii impale streaks can too be called, simply these are not class-specific.

Pro perks are upgraded versions of existing perks that are unlocked by fulfilling certain requirements with the original. All perks have Pro versions and all are unlocked by the Pro Four challenge for that specific perk. Note that Pro V and Pro Vi challenges exist. Pro V does not earn anything except a big corporeality of XP. Pro VI challenges unlock Emblems or titles for players to use in their Callsigns. Pro perks include the benefits of the original version while calculation new benefits. There are less Perks than in Call of Duty 4 due to the add-on of Pro Perks, likewise as the removal of many less-useful Perks.

five • d • e Perks, Killstreaks, and Deathstreaks of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Tier 1 Perks	Marathon · Sleight of Manus · Scavenger · Bling · Ane Man Army

Tier two Perks	Stopping Power · Lightweight · Hardline · Cold-Blooded · Danger Close

Tier 3 Perks	Commando · Steady Aim · Scrambler · Ninja · SitRep · Last Stand

Killstreaks	3: UAV Recon · 4: Intendance Package · 4: Counter-UAV · v: Watch Gun · five: Predator Missile · 6: Precision Airstrike · 7: Harrier Strike · vii: Attack Helicopter · 8: Emergency Airdrop · nine: Pave Low · nine: Stealth Bomber · xi: Chopper Gunner · 11: AC130 · fifteen: EMP · 25: Tactical Nuke

Deathstreaks	Copycat · Painkiller · Martyrdom · Terminal Stand

Cut Perks	Saboteur · Blackbox · Shellshock · Heartbreaker · Challenger

Cut Killstreaks	Heavy Armor

Maps

v • d • e List of Maps in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Included	Afghan · Derail · Estate · Favela · Highrise · Invasion · Karachi · Quarry · Rundown · Rust · Scrapyard · Skidrow · Sub Base · Last · Underpass · Wasteland

Stimulus	Bailout · Crash · Overgrown · Salvage · Storm

Resurgence	Funfair · Fuel · Strike · Trailer Park · Vacant

Unused/Scrapped	Oil Rig · Vertigo · Gulag · Downtown LA · Riverwalk · Bourgeoisie · Trailer · Verdict · Substation · Uprise · Crossfire · Fuel · Whitehouse · Skidrow · Mall · Crib Basement

Kill/Deathstreak Rewards

Killstreak rewards

Players tin select three Killstreak Rewards at a fourth dimension. A thespian's killstreak loadout cannot be inverse from grade to class; instead, ane loadout will exist used for all classes. Killstreaks now stack (getting a college killstreak no longer gets rid of the lower unused one, but it will not be available until after the current killstreak is used). As well, killstreaks crave i less kill with the perk Hardline.

Deathstreak rewards

Death Streaks are the contrary of Kill Streaks: these requite the player sure rewards for being killed a certain amount of times in a row without getting a impale. Once the Decease Streak activates, it remains active until the user gets a kill, no affair how many times the user dies until they get that kill. One time the user gets a kill, the Death Streak will however be active for that life, merely will then deactivate upon their side by side respawn. But one can exist equipped to a course. Dissimilar Perks, Death Streaks exercise not take Pro versions.

five • d • e Perks, Killstreaks, and Deathstreaks of Phone call of Duty: Mod Warfare 2

Tier 1 Perks	Marathon · Sleight of Hand · Scavenger · Bling · I Man Ground forces

Tier 2 Perks	Stopping Power · Lightweight · Hardline · Common cold-Blooded · Danger Close

Tier iii Perks	Commando · Steady Aim · Scrambler · Ninja · SitRep · Terminal Stand up

Killstreaks	3: UAV Recon · four: Intendance Packet · iv: Counter-UAV · five: Sentry Gun · 5: Predator Missile · vi: Precision Airstrike · vii: Harrier Strike · vii: Assail Helicopter · viii: Emergency Airdrop · nine: Pave Low · 9: Stealth Bomber · xi: Chopper Gunner · 11: AC130 · xv: EMP · 25: Tactical Nuke

Deathstreaks	Copycat · Painkiller · Martyrdom · Final Stand

Cut Perks	Saboteur · Blackbox · Shellshock · Heartbreaker · Challenger

Cut Killstreaks	Heavy Armor

Accolades

Main commodity: Telephone call of Duty: Modern Warfare ii Accolades

Accolades are awards earned in game and given later a match. They do not reward XP.

Callsigns

Master commodity: Playercard

Callsigns are multiplayer proper name-tags that appear on screen when a actor achieves a impale, secures a command post, and other things. The callsign includes the Emblem, Title and name of the actor. To unlock titles and emblems for a callsign the thespian will need to exercise certain tasks such as reaching certain prestiges or kills with weapons etc.

Challenges

Primary article: Phone call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 challenges

Challenges remain largely unchanged from the previous game. However, on the issue of prestiging, a tier of challenges will be unlocked, under the title of Prestige. These challenges more often than not require the histrion to get a certain amount of kills using a killstreak etc.

Factions

Navy SEALs
Job Force 141
United states Regular army Rangers
Brazilian Militia
OpFor
Spetsnaz

Local split-screen

Call of Duty: Modernistic Warfare 2 also features local separate-screen on a unmarried console, similarly to previous installments of Call of Duty. Up to 4 players tin play on a unmarried console. Local split-screen features all of the aforementioned game modes and custom settings as online individual matches, and for the beginning time allows players to unlock things and customize their classes only like in the online modes. One of the offline multiplayer settings enables players to play with everything that they have unlocked online, only playing offline volition not earn them XP for their online account, nor volition annihilation they do offline bear on whatsoever of their online leaderboard stats.

Title

Due to the commercial success of Call of Duty 4: Modernistic Warfare, Infinity Ward thought that the modern setting had entered unto a "world of its own," they then dropped the prefix from the title.^[3] Activision was reportedly getting "bored" with the serial, and so ran with the idea. It was later found from surveys that there was a 40% drib in make sensation after the removal of the "Call of Duty" prefix. At E3 2009 the customer intent to buy the game had dropped significantly because of the title change. It is speculated that Activision chose to bring the Call of Duty prefix back in response to these surveys in order to foreclose confusion with consumers. The Call of Duty prefix is still absent from the Hardened and Prestige editions, likewise equally in-game menus.

Modernistic Warfare two Soundtrack

Main article: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Official Soundtrack

Controversies

See also - Controversies surrounding Call of Duty: Mod Warfare 2

Downloadable content

Activision has announced that they program to release a minimum of 2 downloadable map packs for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.^[4] Microsoft announced at E3 2009 that these map packs would be available for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live before they would be released on other platforms.^[2] The first map pack, the Stimulus Package includes 5 maps; 2 from Call of Duty 4: Mod Warfare, Crash and Overgrown, and three new maps, Bailout, Salvage, and Storm. It was released for Xbox Alive users on March xxx, 2010, and May four, 2010 for PC users and N American PlayStation three users. Information technology was release on May 5 for the residual of the PS3 and PC users in the world.

The second map pack, the Resurgence Pack released for Xbox 360 on June iv, and PC for North American PS3 users on July 6 and 7 for the rest of the world using PS3. Information technology included five maps: Three new maps, Carnival, Fuel, and Trailer Park. It also brings back two maps from Call of Duty iv: Mod Warfare, Strike and Vacant.

Retail editions and spin-offs

*Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2*: Prestige Edition

Official *Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2* Xbox 360 console

The game was released in four different editions for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. The PC merely received the commencement edition on the list. These are; Regular, Hardened, Veteran, Prestige, and the Saga Pack:

Regular - Comes with only the game disc and manual in a standard plastic case like most other games. Information technology costs £45/$sixty. This is the only version available for the PC.^[5]

Hardened - Comes with the game disc (a unlike print, the MW2 green and black instead of the effigy in the desert) and the manual, along with an art book, a steel instance, and a code to download the original Call of Duty game. It costs £60/$80.

Veteran - On September xviii, 2009, GAME announced a 'Veteran Edition' which includes all the contents of the Hardened Edition, but includes a "Soap" MacTavish ultra-premium ARTFX Statue sculpted by Kotobukiya. The statue has 3 sets of interchangeable weapons and arms, including: Dual ice-climbing pickaxes, Dual .45 caliber pistols, M14 Enhanced Battle Rifle (affixes to Lather'due south back when non in employ). Information technology is a GAME exclusive. It costs £199.99.

Prestige - Includes all content of the Hardened Edition, as well as fully-functional night vision goggles imprinted with the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare ii logo and a sculpted head stand of "Soap" MacTavish. Information technology costs $150.

Saga Pack - Includes the standard edition of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 along with its prequel, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. It became available in late 2010.

A special edition Xbox 360 was as well released alongside Call of Duty: Modern Warfare ii. The bundle includes an Xbox 360 with MW2 graphics, the Regular edition of Telephone call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, a 250GB hard drive, 2 black wireless controllers, and a headset. Pricing is set at US$399/AU$599/£249.99.

Aside from the main panel versions, two other Call of Duty games were released alongside Phone call of Duty: Modern Warfare ii on November 10, 2009. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized is a Nintendo DS companion narrative game to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and Call of Duty: Modernistic Warfare Reflex is a Treyarch-converted Wii port of Telephone call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

Peripherals

On July 21, 2009, Infinity Ward's Customs Manager Robert Bowling revealed through Twitter that a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare ii controller was in the works, but initially withheld the name of the manufacturer.^[6] It was revealed on August 11, 2009 that peripherals manufacturer Mad Catz was contracted by Activision to create a line of Phone call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 controllers and accessories for all platforms that the game will exist released on.

On Baronial 24, 2009, Mad Catz revealed their Telephone call of Duty: Modern Warfare two lineup including Combat Controllers for Xbox 360 and PS3 platforms, a Throat Communicator for Xbox 360, and a Headset for PS3. For PC in that location is a Combat Gamepad, "Sniper" Mouse with 2 stage weighting organization, and Gainsay Keyboard. The Xbox 360 and PS3 controllers feature programmable combat buttons. The accessories come up in black and snow digital cover-up.

Concept Art

All concept art was drawn by and belongs to Thomas A. Szakolczay.

Game Manual

Sequel

Chief article: Call of Duty: Mod Warfare iii

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was confirmed to be in pre-production on April nine, 2010 and was released November eight, 2011. Activision did confirm that Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games worked on the single player, while Raven Software and newly founded company Beachhead took control of the multiplayer.^[7] Despite widespread rumors maxim that the game is a prequel focusing on deceased character Ghost, the 4 newly released teasers denied this, as the story will continue directly from Modern Warfare 2.

Trivia

In the unmarried player trailer, John "Soap" MacTavish is shot by the Russians in the mission "Cliffhanger", where in the mission, MacTavish doesn't get killed (unless the player does not execute the "Programme B").
Monster Energy has released Modern Warfare 2 themed cans.

The Monster Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Drinkable
This game was seen in Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lighting Thief. It was seen being played past Luke; he was on the Militia team playing Team Deathmatch in Favela with an L86 LSW with Red Dot Sight. A goof that viewers tin can see is that he'south playing with a PS3 controller even though the screen shows Xbox 360 buttons on the screen.
- Another goof for this scene is that when an online game is paused the game continues yet when Luke pauses the game to talk to Percy it acts like he'southward playing a single player campaign mission and the game doesn't keep.
The game was featured in Family Guy in the episode "April in Quahog" where Peter Griffin is seen playing Team Deathmatch on Favela every bit Task Force 141 whilst likewise struggling to control the Xbox 360 randomly dying multiple times.
- Peter's class seems to be a modest variant of the "Grenadier" pre-made class, the difference beingness the equipment slot is a Semtex instead of a frag grenade.
- Peter is killed by someone with the gamertag of "fourzerotwo", a reference to Robert Bowling of Infinity Ward.
Some automobile license plates read "IW20094" referring to Infinity Ward (abbreviated every bit IW), the makers of the game, 2009, referring to the release date, and four equally the quaternary installment to be developed by Infinity Ward.
In the video game Far Cry 3, Willis Huntley makes a reference to Modern Warfare 2 past saying that he'due south "Flying out to Russian federation with Task Force 141."
In Battleground: Bad Company 2, Sweetwater references Modern Warfare 2 by replying "They'll just send in some special ops douchebags with pussy-ass heartbeat monitors on their guns, instead of u.s.a.." to Sarge later he suggests reporting of an HVT to the command. This is credible as the 2 games were in concurrent development, and Bewilderment was shown early in the E3 conference including the same.
Upon its release, Modern Warfare ii broke the tape for nigh successful video game launch of all fourth dimension in the UK and US, breaking the record previously held for over a year past Grand Theft Auto IV. This record was afterward broken past Modern Warfare three, Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Thousand Theft Auto 5.
In October 2009 a YouTube video was released titled Fight Confronting Grenade Spammers that featured baseball player Cole Hamels in a public-service announcement about grenade spammers and is blown upwards by 1 during the video it is then revealed that the title spells out the word "fags" a deragatory term for gay people.

References

↑ Stead, Chris(2009-07-xv).The 10 All-time Game Engines of This Generation. IGN.Retrieved on 2009-07-15.
↑ ^2.0 ^two.1 Kietzmann, Ludwig(2009-06-01).Phone call of Duty: Black Ops hits $1 billion milestone. CNET.Retrieved on 2009-08-07. Cite mistake: Invalid <ref> tag; name "360 DLC" defined multiple times with different content
↑ Modern Warfare two not to be "Call of Duty" branded
↑ Reilly, Jim(2009-08-06).Map Packs Of import for Modern Warfare 2. IGN.Retrieved on 2009-08-06.
↑ Modern Warfare 2 PC Not Getting Special Editions. IGN PC. IGN.Retrieved on 2009-07-29.
↑ Nelson, Randy(2009-07-20).Infinity Ward helping pattern Modern Warfare 2 controller. Joystiq.Retrieved on 2009-07-21.
↑ http://www.gamertell.com/gaming/comment/activision-announced-beachhead-studio-for-cod-china-gets-online-only-cod/

External links

Infinity Ward's creative strategist's (formerly community manager) Twitter
Infinity Ward's Twitter
The official site of Phone call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty: Mod Warfare 2 forum on Infinity Ward'due south website
GameStop's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare two Pre-guild sweepstakes
Monster Energy's promotion for Modern Warfare 2

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Spin-offs and Expansions	United Offensive (2004) • Finest Hour (2004) • two: Big Ruddy One (2005) • Roads to Victory (2007) • Earth at War: Terminal Fronts (2008) • Modern Warfare: Reflex Edition (2009) • Classic (2009) • Black Ops: Declassified (2012) • Online (2013) • Jackal Attack VR Feel (2016) • Modern Warfare Remastered (2016) • Warzone (2020) • Modernistic Warfare 2 Entrada Remastered (2020)

Expanded Universe	Modernistic Warfare ii: Ghost (2009) • GKNOVA6 (2010) • Detect Makarov: Operation Kingfish (2011) • Lather's Journal (2011) • Rightful King (2012) • Devil'due south Breath (2013) • CourtOptic2055.com (2015) • V.East.R.S.I.O.Northward. (2015) • Blackness Ops 3 comic (2015) • Zombies comic (2016) • Zombies two comic (2018) • Blackness Ops 4 comic (2018) • Pawn Takes Pawn (2020) • Vanguard comic (2021) • Call of Duty film (TBD)

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